Throughout ancient Chinese history, founding emperors and rulers abounded, and because of their own merits, they left a strong mark in the history books. However, there are good and bad, and there are not a few famous emperors in history, so who are the familiar emperors? The faint-hearted King of Shang, the cruel and tyrannical Sui Emperor, the weak and deceitful Xianfeng Emperor...?
But these emperors are small compared to the emperors I will introduce next, because the above-mentioned emperors, in any case, before and after the succession, have done some serious things, and now there are some historians who have rehabilitated them. However, the emperor that I want to introduce, there are simply no scholars who want to mention him, who is he? He was Hu Hai, the Second Qin Emperor.
Speaking of this name, everyone must be very familiar, but when it comes to his specific deeds, it may be difficult to come up with other words to describe it except the two words of brutality, as if his existence is only to push the Qin Dynasty into the abyss of destruction. Hu Hai can be said to have not learned any techniques and had no great ambitions since he was a child, and he inherited the tyranny of Qin Shi Huang in personality, but he did not have the shadow of his father Qin Shi Huang's Honghu Zhizhi.
Although as the 18th son of Qin Shi Huang, there were also teachers who taught him the way to govern the country, but Hu Hai was not at all concerned about learning this matter, he only knew how to fight all day, did not pay attention to rules and etiquette at all, and from the time he was a prince, he was willful and arrogant. So how could such an ineffable person become emperor? Because Hu Hai was the youngest and had many similarities with Qin Shi Huang's personality, he was very favored by Qin Shi Huang. Therefore, when Qin Shi Huang was on parade, he would bring Hu Hai with him from time to time, who knew that because of this habit, He Hai would later ascend the throne as emperor.
We all know that Zhao Gao had ill intentions, he secretly mourned after the death of Qin Shi Huang, and threatened Li Si that if Fu Su succeeded to the throne, Li Si's own fate would be very miserable, and in the end, he supported the unlearned Hu Hai to ascend to the emperor's throne. After ascending the throne, Hu Hai "carried through to the end" his fatal shortcomings of fainting and cruelty to Zhongliang. After he came to power, he first killed the ministers who opposed him in the DPRK, then killed his brothers and sisters, and finally even the local officials.
At the instigation of Zhao Gao, Hu Hai believed that only in this way could his throne sit firmly. In the face of peasant uprisings everywhere, he also confidently believed that those were just small fights and would not endanger his rule, and all threats had been lifted by Zhao Gao, and he could sit back and relax. He himself clearly knew that Zhao Gao was supporting his own forces, and not only did he not stop him, but he thought that Zhao Gao was in line with his own position, and naively thought that Zhao Gao's forces were his own forces.
In the end, Zhao Gao openly pointed out the deer as a horse above the court, and many ministers also echoed it, and Hu Hai not only did not realize that his power had been emptied, but thought that there was a problem with his eyes and wanted to find a doctor to see himself. As an emperor, being able to be stupid to such an extent is also a person who has never come before or after. In this regard, I only sighed that Zhao Gaozhen was "wise and discerning", and he found an "excellent" puppet emperor.
So, why do I use the term "poor" to describe Hu Hai? Obviously, it was too late to hate him, so how could they pity him? Let's move on. As an emperor, Hu Hai only lived for 23 years, reigned for only three years, his father was Qin Shi Huang, which is well known, who her mother was unknown, and who the harem favored concubines were. During Hu Hai's reign, he did not have an era name, and after his death, he did not have a title or temple number.
As an emperor, Hu Hai didn't even have these most basic things. During his reign, he did not even do a single thing that was beneficial to the people, and all he could think of was how to eat, drink, and have fun, his power was completely empty, and the whole person was controlled by Zhao Gao. An emperor in the hall mixed up in this position, not to say that he is pitiful, how can you describe him?
As historical viewers, in addition to expressing our dissatisfaction with Hu Hai's actions, this history will also bring us a lot of thinking, which is the real "destroyer of the Six Kingdoms, the Six Kingdoms, not Qin, the clan Qin, Qin, not the world." "The demise of a dynasty must spread from the inside to the outside, just as we are all discussing today with The Qin II Hu Hai, who lived only for his own interests from the beginning, and after he came to power, he not only did not implement some good policies that benefited the people, but instead intensified, and his tyranny was even greater than that of his father, Qin Shi Huang.
Hu Hai's actions have fundamentally destroyed the entire Qin Dynasty system, and if it is a dynastic crisis caused by external factors, it may be able to remedy it, but if it is from the head of the entire dynasty that it has begun to corrupt, it is simply a fool's dream to try to save this dynasty. And Hu Hai has also left an ancient infamy for what he has done. So to say that the most faint emperor in history, if Hu Hai is called the second, absolutely no one dares to call the first, what do you all think?